The question, "Shall the new City Charter proposed by the City Charter Commission be adopted?" shall be submitted to qualified electors of the City at the general election to be held on November 3, 2015, in accordance with Part 2, § 36 of the Municipal Home Rule Law as last amended by Chapter 592 of the Laws of 1964. If the proposition receives the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, this charter shall be deemed adopted and shall become effective as prescribed in § C-64 hereof.
The terms of appointees to boards, commissions and authorities
shall not exceed a total of nine (9) consecutive years for each appointee,
except there shall be a maximum of ten (10) years for appointees to
the Troy Housing Authority and two consecutive terms of six (6) years
each for appointees to the Municipal Civil Service Commission. This
section shall not be applied retroactively.
If a clause, sentence, paragraph, section or article or this
Charter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
be invalid, such judgment shall not affect the validity of the remainder
of this Charter, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, section or article directly involved in the controversy
in which such judgment shall be rendered.
This Charter shall take effect in its entirety on July 1, 2016.
All local laws, ordinances and resolutions previously adopted by the
City Council, and in effect as of the effective date of this Charter,
shall continue in full force and effect, except to the extent that
such local laws, ordinances or resolutions are inconsistent with this
Charter or have been repealed, amended, modified or superseded, either
explicitly or by implication, by the adoption of this Charter.
